Clarence Dias is the President of the influential International Center for Law in Development and is chair of the board of a group called Human Rights Internet. He is a member of the Human Rights Watch Asia Advisory Committee and according to one bio even worked with Unicef.
In the late 1990s Dias wrote a paper critical of applying Western standards of human rights universally which is hosted by the Carnegie Council to this day. In it he makes this statement:
This approach not only challenges the current human rights regime’s tendency to view rights as bestowed and guaranteed by the state and available as protection against state actors, but it reveals other shortcomings in the dominant Western, liberal human rights paradigm. These shortcomings, as pointed out by critics in Asia and elsewhere, include: a preoccupation with individuals as bearers of a limited set of civil and political rights; excessive legalism; a somewhat adversarial nature; failure to incorporate non-Western bases for human rights; a disregard for notions of duty and collective rights; and the relegation of economic, social, and cultural rights to a secondary status.
It should surprise no one then that a person on record as saying we civilized people are “pre-occupied” with the idea of individuals having rights separate from the group from which they come would be a filthy pervert:
A high-ranking human rights worker with ties to the United Nations was nabbed at Kennedy Airport Tuesday with kiddie porn in his suitcase, officials said.
Clarence Dias, 65, president of the International Center for Law in Development, whose offices are located at the UN, had the smut in his carry-on bag as he passed through security on his way to a flight bound for Bangkok, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
Transportation Security Administration officials doing a random bag check around 8:20a.m. allegedly found a DVD whose cover featured an apparently underage nude boy and an adult male in Dias’ handbag, prosecutors said.
The video’s title – “Winner Pub Pattaya” – apparently refers to a beach resort in Thailand, authorities said. There were also other lewd photographs in the bag, authorities said.
Dias – who holds a doctorate in law from Bombay University and Cornell Law School and has taught at Boston College of Law – claimed the porn was for research, authorities said.
“He admitted it was his – but tried to play it off. He said he was doing research on how to better make sure kids’ rights were not abused,” a police source said. “Yeah, sure. It’s always research.”
Calls to Dias’ office went straight to voicemail Tuesday.
The humanitarian group calls itself “a Third World NGO [nongovernmental organization] concerned about human rights in the development process.”
This is the latest sex scandal to roil the UN.
The agency came under fire in 2002 for turning a blind eye to wide-scale sexual abuse of West African refugee children by its own aid workers and peacekeepers.
UN workers from nine countries – including Britain and India – were accused of sexually exploiting children in dozens of refugee camps in war-torn Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, the internal report found.
This sheds even more light on the nonchalant attitude the U.N. and related NGOs have taken when “peacekeepers” are caught molesting children.
Gateway Pundit has more, including links to the several other child rape scandals the U.N. is involved in.